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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/xmon, branch v5.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: fix dump_segments()</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T07:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-16T17:31:08+00:00</published>
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mfsrin() takes segment num from bits 31-28 (IBM bits 0-3).

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[mpe: Clarify bit numbering]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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mfsrin() takes segment num from bits 31-28 (IBM bits 0-3).

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
[mpe: Clarify bit numbering]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: annotate implicit fall throughs</title>
<updated>2018-12-04T08:45:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-28T22:28:30+00:00</published>
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There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough and these
places in the code produced warnings, but because we build arch/powerpc
with -Werror, they became errors.  Fix them up.

This patch produces no change in behaviour, but should be reviewed in
case these are actually bugs not intentional fallthoughs.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough and these
places in the code produced warnings, but because we build arch/powerpc
with -Werror, they became errors.  Fix them up.

This patch produces no change in behaviour, but should be reviewed in
case these are actually bugs not intentional fallthoughs.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: Fix invocation inside lock region</title>
<updated>2018-12-04T08:45:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Breno Leitao</name>
<email>leitao@debian.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-08T17:12:42+00:00</published>
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Currently xmon needs to get devtree_lock (through rtas_token()) during its
invocation (at crash time). If there is a crash while devtree_lock is being
held, then xmon tries to get the lock but spins forever and never get into
the interactive debugger, as in the following case:

	int *ptr = NULL;
	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;devtree_lock, flags);
	*ptr = 0xdeadbeef;

This patch avoids calling rtas_token(), thus trying to get the same lock,
at crash time. This new mechanism proposes getting the token at
initialization time (xmon_init()) and just consuming it at crash time.

This would allow xmon to be possible invoked independent of devtree_lock
being held or not.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently xmon needs to get devtree_lock (through rtas_token()) during its
invocation (at crash time). If there is a crash while devtree_lock is being
held, then xmon tries to get the lock but spins forever and never get into
the interactive debugger, as in the following case:

	int *ptr = NULL;
	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;devtree_lock, flags);
	*ptr = 0xdeadbeef;

This patch avoids calling rtas_token(), thus trying to get the same lock,
at crash time. This new mechanism proposes getting the token at
initialization time (xmon_init()) and just consuming it at crash time.

This would allow xmon to be possible invoked independent of devtree_lock
being held or not.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: change CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU to CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S</title>
<updated>2018-11-26T11:33:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-17T10:25:04+00:00</published>
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Today we have:

config PPC_BOOK3S
        def_bool y
        depends on PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_BOOK3S_64

config PPC_STD_MMU
        def_bool y
        depends on PPC_BOOK3S

PPC_STD_MMU is therefore redundant with PPC_BOOK3S. Lets remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Today we have:

config PPC_BOOK3S
        def_bool y
        depends on PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_BOOK3S_64

config PPC_STD_MMU
        def_bool y
        depends on PPC_BOOK3S

PPC_STD_MMU is therefore redundant with PPC_BOOK3S. Lets remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: change CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_32 to CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32</title>
<updated>2018-11-26T11:33:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-17T10:25:02+00:00</published>
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Today we have:

config PPC_BOOK3S_32
        bool "512x/52xx/6xx/7xx/74xx/82xx/83xx/86xx"
        [depends on PPC32 within a choice]

config PPC_BOOK3S
        def_bool y
        depends on PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_BOOK3S_64

config PPC_STD_MMU
	def_bool y
	depends on PPC_BOOK3S

config PPC_STD_MMU_32
	def_bool y
	depends on PPC_STD_MMU &amp;&amp; PPC32

PPC_STD_MMU_32 is therefore redundant with PPC_BOOK3S_32.

In order to make the code clearer, lets use preferably PPC_BOOK3S_32.
This will allow to remove CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_32 in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Today we have:

config PPC_BOOK3S_32
        bool "512x/52xx/6xx/7xx/74xx/82xx/83xx/86xx"
        [depends on PPC32 within a choice]

config PPC_BOOK3S
        def_bool y
        depends on PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_BOOK3S_64

config PPC_STD_MMU
	def_bool y
	depends on PPC_BOOK3S

config PPC_STD_MMU_32
	def_bool y
	depends on PPC_STD_MMU &amp;&amp; PPC32

PPC_STD_MMU_32 is therefore redundant with PPC_BOOK3S_32.

In order to make the code clearer, lets use preferably PPC_BOOK3S_32.
This will allow to remove CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_32 in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: Define static functions</title>
<updated>2018-11-25T06:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Breno Leitao</name>
<email>leitao@debian.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-22T14:54:16+00:00</published>
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Currently sparse is complaining about three issues on the xmon code. Two
storage classes issues and a dereferencing a 'noderef'  pointer. These are
the warnings:

	arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:2783:1: warning: symbol 'dump_log_buf' was not declared. Should it be static?
	arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:2989:6: warning: symbol 'format_pte' was not declared. Should it be static?
	arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:2983:30: warning: dereference of noderef expression

This patch fixes all of them, turning both functions static and
dereferencing a pointer calling rcu_dereference() instead of a
straightforward dereference.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently sparse is complaining about three issues on the xmon code. Two
storage classes issues and a dereferencing a 'noderef'  pointer. These are
the warnings:

	arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:2783:1: warning: symbol 'dump_log_buf' was not declared. Should it be static?
	arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:2989:6: warning: symbol 'format_pte' was not declared. Should it be static?
	arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:2983:30: warning: dereference of noderef expression

This patch fixes all of them, turning both functions static and
dereferencing a pointer calling rcu_dereference() instead of a
straightforward dereference.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/xmon: Relax frame size for clang</title>
<updated>2018-10-31T09:39:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Stanley</name>
<email>joel@jms.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-31T01:09:34+00:00</published>
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When building with clang (8 trunk, 7.0 release) the frame size limit is
hit:

 arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:452:12: warning: stack frame size of 2576
 bytes in function 'xmon_core' [-Wframe-larger-than=]

Some investigation by Naveen indicates this is due to clang saving the
addresses to printf format strings on the stack.

While this issue is investigated, bump up the frame size limit for xmon
when building with clang.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/252
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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When building with clang (8 trunk, 7.0 release) the frame size limit is
hit:

 arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:452:12: warning: stack frame size of 2576
 bytes in function 'xmon_core' [-Wframe-larger-than=]

Some investigation by Naveen indicates this is due to clang saving the
addresses to printf format strings on the stack.

While this issue is investigated, bump up the frame size limit for xmon
when building with clang.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/252
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64</title>
<updated>2018-10-20T02:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-02T07:53:59+00:00</published>
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scaled cputime is only meaningfull when the processor has
SPURR and/or PURR, which means only on PPC64.

Removing it on PPC32 significantly reduces the size of
vtime_account_system() and vtime_account_idle() on an 8xx:

Before:
00000000 l     F .text	000000a8 vtime_delta
00000280 g     F .text	0000010c vtime_account_system
0000038c g     F .text	00000048 vtime_account_idle

After:
(vtime_delta gets inlined inside the two functions)
000001d8 g     F .text	000000a0 vtime_account_system
00000278 g     F .text	00000038 vtime_account_idle

In terms of performance, we also get approximatly 7% improvement on
task switch. The following small benchmark app is run with perf stat:

void *thread(void *arg)
{
	int i;

	for (i = 0; i &lt; atoi((char*)arg); i++)
		pthread_yield();
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	pthread_t th1, th2;

	pthread_create(&amp;th1, NULL, thread, argv[1]);
	pthread_create(&amp;th2, NULL, thread, argv[1]);
	pthread_join(th1, NULL);
	pthread_join(th2, NULL);

	return 0;
}

Before the patch:

 Performance counter stats for 'chrt -f 98 ./sched 100000' (50 runs):

       8228.476465      task-clock (msec)         #    0.954 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.23% )
            200004      context-switches          #    0.024 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )

After the patch:

 Performance counter stats for 'chrt -f 98 ./sched 100000' (50 runs):

       7649.070444      task-clock (msec)         #    0.955 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.27% )
            200004      context-switches          #    0.026 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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scaled cputime is only meaningfull when the processor has
SPURR and/or PURR, which means only on PPC64.

Removing it on PPC32 significantly reduces the size of
vtime_account_system() and vtime_account_idle() on an 8xx:

Before:
00000000 l     F .text	000000a8 vtime_delta
00000280 g     F .text	0000010c vtime_account_system
0000038c g     F .text	00000048 vtime_account_idle

After:
(vtime_delta gets inlined inside the two functions)
000001d8 g     F .text	000000a0 vtime_account_system
00000278 g     F .text	00000038 vtime_account_idle

In terms of performance, we also get approximatly 7% improvement on
task switch. The following small benchmark app is run with perf stat:

void *thread(void *arg)
{
	int i;

	for (i = 0; i &lt; atoi((char*)arg); i++)
		pthread_yield();
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	pthread_t th1, th2;

	pthread_create(&amp;th1, NULL, thread, argv[1]);
	pthread_create(&amp;th2, NULL, thread, argv[1]);
	pthread_join(th1, NULL);
	pthread_join(th2, NULL);

	return 0;
}

Before the patch:

 Performance counter stats for 'chrt -f 98 ./sched 100000' (50 runs):

       8228.476465      task-clock (msec)         #    0.954 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.23% )
            200004      context-switches          #    0.024 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )

After the patch:

 Performance counter stats for 'chrt -f 98 ./sched 100000' (50 runs):

       7649.070444      task-clock (msec)         #    0.955 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.27% )
            200004      context-switches          #    0.026 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add -Werror at arch/powerpc level</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T13:56:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T05:13:06+00:00</published>
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Back when I added -Werror in commit ba55bd74360e ("powerpc: Add
configurable -Werror for arch/powerpc") I did it by adding it to most
of the arch Makefiles.

At the time we excluded math-emu, because apparently it didn't build
cleanly. But that seems to have been fixed somewhere in the interim.

So move the -Werror addition to the top-level of the arch, this saves
us from repeating it in every Makefile and means we won't forget to
add it to any new sub-dirs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Back when I added -Werror in commit ba55bd74360e ("powerpc: Add
configurable -Werror for arch/powerpc") I did it by adding it to most
of the arch Makefiles.

At the time we excluded math-emu, because apparently it didn't build
cleanly. But that seems to have been fixed somewhere in the interim.

So move the -Werror addition to the top-level of the arch, this saves
us from repeating it in every Makefile and means we won't forget to
add it to any new sub-dirs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/hash: Add SLB allocation status bitmaps</title>
<updated>2018-10-14T07:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-14T15:30:53+00:00</published>
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Add 32-entry bitmaps to track the allocation status of the first 32
SLB entries, and whether they are user or kernel entries. These are
used to allocate free SLB entries first, before resorting to the round
robin allocator.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add 32-entry bitmaps to track the allocation status of the first 32
SLB entries, and whether they are user or kernel entries. These are
used to allocate free SLB entries first, before resorting to the round
robin allocator.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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